truth without looking outside ourselves) or ‘existentialists’ (making the truth a matter of our own decision), truth for the philosophers still lay enclosed within the knowing person (‘the subject’). But according to the biblical and Reformation faith, truth and salvation lie outside of our selves, in the Christ who is beyond ourselves (extra nos) yet also ‘for us’ (pro nobis) in his grace. These were Martin Luther’s terms, and Bonhoeffer further used Luther’s description of original sin, ‘the heart